run to
Hurry toward someone
Run to indicates movement toward something, often for help or refuge: She always runs to her mother when she's upset.
It can suggest a tendency or habit: His taste runs to the exotic.
Run to also indicates reaching a quantity or extent: The bill ran to several hundred dollars, The manuscript runs to eight hundred pages.
- reachExtend to touch
- amountTotal quantity present
- equalIdentical in amount
- totalComplete sum
- appealFormal review request
grow · stretch · span · petition · consult · rely · seek · depend · trust · fall back on · become · rush · flee · plead · resort · lean · scramble · hasten
run toavoid
Stay away from
shun · evade · shy away from · go it alone · fend for oneself